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No doubt I would have felt reverent in less lovely places, because I imagined a past I connected to myself.

No doubt I would have felt reverent in less lovely places, because I imagined a past I connected to myself.
– Siri Hustvedt

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  1. Our memory fragments don’t have any coherence until they’re imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense. – Siri Hustvedt
  2. Immigration inevitably involves error and revision. What I imagined it would be, it’s not. For better or worse, some mistake is unavoidable. – Siri Hustvedt
  3. Accumulated experience always alters perception of the past. – Siri Hustvedt
  4. Less fear, more courage.Less doubt, more faith.Less talking, more action.Less ignorance, more knowledge. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  5. The casket was lined with lovely velvet, which must have felt lovely even to the dead, but the glowing man continued to rip up the casket. – Brad McKinniss
  6. A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other. – Siri Hustvedt
  7. Every reader writes the book he or she reads, supplying what isn’t there, and that creative invention becomes the book. – Siri Hustvedt
  8. Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting. – Siri Hustvedt
  9. Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie. – Siri Hustvedt
  10. Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on. – Siri Hustvedt
  11. Are not dreams as much a part of living as waking life is? – Siri Hustvedt
  12. fiction is necessary to life – not only as books but as dreams, dreams that frame the world and give it meaning. – Siri Hustvedt
  13. I am fascinated that no one I have read seems to have noticed that the literature on Picasso continually turns grown-up women into girls. – Siri Hustvedt
  14. Artists are cannibals. We consume other artists, and they become part of us-”flesh and bone-”only to be spewed out again in our own works. – Siri Hustvedt
  15. The history of art is full of women lying around naked for ?????c consumption by men. – Siri Hustvedt
  16. We read each other through our eyes, and anatomically they are an extension of our brains. When we catch someone’s eye, we look into a mind. – Siri Hustvedt
  17. Only the unprotected self can feel joy. – Siri Hustvedt
  18. The fictive is an emormous territory it turns out, its boundaries vague, and there is little certainty about where it begins and ends. – Siri Hustvedt
  19. The advice is a call to empathy, the ultimate act of the imagination, and the true ground of all fiction. – Siri Hustvedt
  20. My purely practical advice: Don’t get excited. Don’t raise your voice. Bite back. Bite back hard, but never cry. – Siri Hustvedt
  21. Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit – unconscious and conscious. – Siri Hustvedt
  22. Memory changes as a person matures. – Siri Hustvedt
  23. What she remembered is undoubtedly something so radically different from the image I gave to her memory that the two may be incompatible. – Siri Hustvedt
  24. In this early memory he looks different from the way I would remember him later. – Siri Hustvedt
  25. Crippled and crazy, we hobble toward the finish line, pen in hand. – Siri Hustvedt
  26. Correlation is not cause, it is just a ‘music of chance’. – Siri Hustvedt
  27. Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it. – Siri Hustvedt
  28. Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it. – Siri Hustvedt
  29. There’s a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in. – Siri Hustvedt
  30. There’s a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in. – Siri Hustvedt
  31. Transformation of the self are related to where you are, and identity Is dependent on others. – Siri Hustvedt
  32. The bottle of red brush on a white table gleamed throughout the remaining years of my childhood as the sign of what was possible there. – Siri Hustvedt
  33. The stories and pictures I make for the lives of the people closest to me are the forms of my empathy. – Siri Hustvedt
  34. Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won’t help you. – Jeanette Winterson
  35. There are places we fear, places we dream, places whose exiles we became and never learned it until, sometimes, too late. – Thomas Pynchon
  36. Does this mean that in some places I’m American and in some places I’m African American and in other places, by logical extension, I’m nobody? – Roberto Bolao
  37. The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold. 69 L – Oswald Chambers
  38. Now the soft-voiced gentle woman of my reverent worship has all but vanished. – Nikola Tesla
  39. He was too perplexed to please the conventional and too reverent. to please the infidels. – Elton Trueblood
  40. We are free to live the life we have imagined, not the life imagined for us. – Chris Matakas

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